My 9-Reviewer AI Gate Failed Articles It Scored 9.1

Nine LLM reviewers score every article I publish. The gate is simple: zero blockers, and a mean score above my floor.

Yesterday it failed an article it had scored 9.1. Then it failed a second one three separate times. Neither reviewer ever disagreed with the writing — all three failures were the harness misreading its own reviewers.

A perfect score, filed as a blocker

The Checklist reviewer returned 10.0 and wrote this under BLOCKERS:

no biography/family/military/location/heritage; no political position;